- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:03:51 +0100
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- CC: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Doug Schepers wrote: > W3C has activities for accessibility (several WAI groups), video, voice > browsers, e-government (including education and community outreach)... > all of these things address your concerns. So, your claim doesn't seem > to match the facts. I think (and forgive me if I am wrong) that what Jonathan means by "engage with"[1] is to actually talk to, and work with, such people, to ascertain at first hand how best they can be "empowered"[2]. Am I correct, Jonathan ? Philip TAYLOR -------- [1], [2] : Yet more modern management-speak. Sadly these words, and their friends, are now so commonplace that it is becoming increasingly difficult, when tempted to use them, to : > Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. > Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. > Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. > Prefer the short word to the long. > Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance. as H W Fowler so wisely recommended in /The King's English/.
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